Book Reviews

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  Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat

  First published in the early 1980s to inform and empower people of colour struggling against the white capitalist hegemony of American society, Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat remains a relevant historical materialist interrogation of “whiteness” that has much to offer our under…

  Reviewed by Tyler McCreary   /   Issue 2   /   10/26/2009
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  Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation

  Ending women’s oppression is crucial to the struggle for human liberation, but serious investigations of why women suffer distinct forms of oppression, and why rape and other forms of violence play such an integral role in this oppression, have generally been beyond the scope of most left analysis…

  Reviewed by Karl Kersplebedeb   /   Issue 2   /   10/26/2009
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  Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution

  Ten Thousand Roses: The Making of a Feminist Revolution is Judy Rebick’s attempt to provide a historical account of the second wave of the mainstream feminist movement in Canada. Rebick, herself an active participant in the latter part of this movement and a well known feminist today, is arguably…

  Reviewed by Kirat Kaur   /   Issue 2   /   10/26/2009
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  A View of Freedom: Alfie Roberts Speaks

  In the fall of 1995, the top writers in Canada’s Black literary firmament gathered at the National Library of Canada in Ottawa to take part in the Black Writers Conference. Andre Alexis, Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke, Cecil Foster, Claire Harris, Nalo Hopkinson, and Makeda Silvera were just…

  Reviewed by Adrian Harewood   /   Issue 2   /   10/26/2009
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  Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire

  One approach to understanding the democracy of the multitude is as an open-source society, that is, a society whose source code is revealed so that we can all work collaboratively to solve its bugs. - Hardt and Negri, Multitude After the unprecedented commercial and critical success of Michael Hardt…

  Reviewed by D. Oswald Mitchell   /   Issue 1   /   10/8/2009
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  Undoing Gender

  In Undoing Gender, Judith Butler develops upon her earlier work in gender and queer theory. Butler, a professor in Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Women’s Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is best known for her groundbreaking book Gender Trouble, in which she outlined her th…

  Reviewed by Erin Gray   /   Issue 1   /   10/8/2009